I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

I will never be a skinny waif as I am physically unable to say "no" to free booze and snacks. Oh well.

I don't think I'm going to go into Iron Man. I mean, I can't say that I won't go into something like an Iron Man franchise.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

I've got a couple of full-time jobs, since I'm raising a kid, so it's a lot.

The simple heart that freely asks in love obtains.

One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.